No Buy It Now Requests

[lewisner]

When I list an item  I always make it an auction , turn off Offers and specify in the description that I do not want Buy It Now requests. I sometimes specify that such requests will not be replied to. And yet here I am being asked for a Buy It Now price, after the item already has a bid.

I don't like to be rude but how do you react when this happens ? I find it rather depressing.

[vinylscot · Accepted solution]

Ignore it. Do not reply. Delete the message. Add the sender to your blocked buyers and block them from contacting you again.

[thepillenwerfer]

Strange isn't it?  I get the same but on the odd occasions I have been prepared to accept offers and switched them on I've never received one.

I reply saying there isn't one and that they should place a bid as they may save a few bob by getting it for less than their offer.

[eastern-lights]

A few months ago I started including buy it now prices in my auctions. Fairly high price but not ludicrously so. Since than, no messages asking for my buy it now price. No offers. Plus a few sales at my high-ish buy it now price.

[lewisner]

That's kind of what I was thinking, glad I'm not the only one.

[1902elder]

Be grateful that you are being asked, with sales so low now any offer to buy should be considered.

[department28]

If you specify in your listing that Buy It Now requests are not wanted & will not be replied to, then of course you aren't obliged to reply - although I can understand that awkward feeling of it being rude to ignore someone.

I would tend to use a simple stock message, along the lines of 'Sorry, I can't take offers for this item, but thanks anyway'.

Often the people that send these messages are just chancers, hoping that there's an outside chance you might take an offer, but they may fully intend to bid anyway - so I wouldn't block them unless they are persistent, or rude.

[lewisner]

Not an offer that is less than half the Ebay median price and after an opening bid has already been made ?

[selective_distribution]

Try listing something as `COLLECTION ONLY`, and see how many crazy people message you! Recently had a guitar for collection only, and had messages `How much you post to California?`........`How much to post to Sweden?`.......`Can you post to Swindon? It should only cost you £10.00`. (It should only cost ME £10.00!). .....Can you post to Glasgow?......and then.....`Post to Glasgow?`.....and then......`I will pay extra postage (getting angry), why can`t you send to Glasgow!`. And so on, as if I have all day to answer endless mails from people who don`t understand the words `COLLECTION ONLY`. I used to reply to them all with an explanation of why the item is collection only.....now I just block them. 

[thepillenwerfer]

Common sense (which sadly isn't very common these days) would say that a guitar is too long for most couriers — the Royal Mail limit is two feet and Evri's four — even before you add any protective material to it.

I've had people BUY Collection Only items and then say they want it posting or that they are sending a courier and expecting me to pack it.

Now I say in the listing that I won't post/courier it as I don't have the materials to pack it.